Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pipe has frozen , it can be thawed out with a hairdrier or by wrapping towels soaked in hot water around it . |
| 2 | The regulation of pension funds tends to be far lighter than for insurance companies as they are bound by trust legislation , and because the companies that offer pensions have an incentive to make sure that schemes are adequately administered as they are responsible for the benefits they have agreed upon for their employees ( even though they rarely run the fund themselves ) . |
| 3 | Mercifully , this time casualties were lighter than during that phenomenal event but there were reports of at least three fatalities which were attributed to the storm . |
| 4 | One of this country 's great strengths is that the burdens imposed by the Government on employing people are much lighter than in France and Germany . |
| 5 | I do n't suppose that that graveyard ever looked prettier than on our Mary 's wedding day . |
| 6 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 7 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 8 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 9 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 10 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 11 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 12 | While this is admittedly still a lengthy period , it is significantly quicker than under the ordinary procedure . |
| 13 | Jim Heslop of Borderway market in Carlisle believes the general situation will be steadier than at first thought . |
| 14 | In aggregate then , the run-down of employment in foreign-owned plants was steadier than in domestic industry , reflecting more the international average of changes in the economy and productivity . |
| 15 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 16 | Mrs Hill was a small , plump , middle-aged woman , with fine frizzy hair which she encased in a fine frizzy hair net ; she always wore a purple and blue flowered pinny , a garment more in keeping with an aunt or a cleaner than with a lover of science . |
| 17 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 18 | The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days . |
| 19 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 20 | If there is any amount of bankside vegetation the task is somewhat easier than on an open bank . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , reaching understandings with them on operational requirements is still easier than with our European partners . |
| 22 | Installation is easier than with mains-voltage supplies too , because you can simply trail the cables across the ground instead of having to bury them . |
| 23 | Venturing out with a small baby is actually easier than with toddlers , who want to crawl , explore and get up to mischief . |
| 24 | Separating the two parts is considerably easier than with cast iron . |
| 25 | New studies show that targetting normal genes using viral and other systems to enter cells ( from marrow , the lung and gut , liver and skin ) may be easier than at first thought , and that DNA will function more or less normally once it gets into the cell . |
| 26 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 27 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 28 | For market indices based on a small number of shares , such as the MMI with only 20 shares , arbitrage using all the shares in the index is much easier than for indices like the NYSE Composite , which comprises about 1700 shares . |
| 29 | What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ? |
| 30 | As glass tubes are ideal for obtaining Raman spectra , sampling of liquids is much easier than for IR spectroscopy . |